A New Thought on Planetary Formation

I don't know why I think of things like this, or how it comes into my mind, but I figured out a way to create planets that has never before been proposed, that I am aware of.

Briefly, stars create water merely from certain light wavelengths [link to www.esa.int] ...water attracts to water especially with high voltage and 'vacuum' (Water Bridge Experiment) [link to www.youtube.com] Interstellar cloud comes across star...whatever the mechanism of initiation, whether it already be an object caught by star, or one entering that gets caught, a conduit is formed through cloud, much like a magnetic flux tube [link to science.nasa.gov] ...denser the cloud, faster the transfer to orbiting object [link to www.astronomycafe.net] If it even needs an orbiting object to have a conduit. Maybe, actually I think this is more likely, elements get transfered from star to densest part of passing cloud column, making it ever denser and also trapped in sun's gravitational electric/magnetic field. Presto, a proto-planet is born. And, after eons of going in and out of passing clouds, further formation occurs...with all necessary life ingredients coming and/or being transfered from the sun itself...including, INCREDIBLY, water.

So, we go from planets being formed able to sustain life as an extreme rarity...to...inevitability...

This needs to be worked out, but on its surface, there is ABSOLUTELY NO glaring fallibilities of formation this way. Now that we know about interstellar clouds and EU and the attraction that is created through energy...a missing piece would be the accumulation of water. But now that it is known that stars create water vapor, and the Water Bridge experiment...

H2 is actually pretty abundant in molecular form in space and all it needs is some Oxygen, water is not as scare as you've been led to believe. To tie in with your thread I have this "little" bit of information. We know that planetoids and planets form inside these clouds and that copious amounts of dust is required, add movement and sit back and watch.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Texas has succeeded in identifying one of the most complex organic molecules yet found in the material between the stars, the so-called interstellar medium. The discovery of anthracene could help resolve a decades-old astrophysical mystery concerning the production of organic molecules in space. The researchers report their findings in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

'We have detected the presence of anthracene molecules in a dense cloud in the direction of the star Cernis 52 in Perseus, about 700 light years from the Sun,' explains Susana Iglesias Groth, the IAC researcher heading the study.

In her opinion, the next step is to investigate the presence of amino acids. Molecules like anthracene are prebiotic, so when they are subjected to ultraviolet radiation and combined with water and ammonia, they could produce amino acids and other compounds essential for the development of life

'Two years ago,' says Iglesias, 'we found proof of the existence of another organic molecule, naphthalene, in the same place, so everything indicates that we have discovered a star formation region rich in prebiotic chemistry.' Until now, anthracene had been detected only in meteorites and never in the interstellar medium. Oxidized forms of this molecule are common in living systems and are biochemically active. On our planet, oxidized anthracene is a basic component of aloe and has anti-inflammatory properties.

The new finding suggests that a good part of the key components in terrestrial prebiotic chemistry could be present in interstellar matter.

Since the 1980s, hundreds of bands found in the spectrum of the interstellar medium, known as diffuse spectroscopic bands, have been known to be associated with interstellar matter, but their origin has not been identified until now. This discovery indicates that they could result from molecular forms based on anthracene or naphthalene. Since they are widely distributed in interstellar space, they might have played a key role in the production of many of the organic molecules present at the time of the formation of the Solar System.

The results are based on observations carried out at the William Herschel Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands and with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas in the United States.

More information: The new work appears in the paper “Anthracene cations toward the Perseus molecular complex", S. Iglesias Groth S., Manchado A., Rebolo R., González J. I., García Hernández A. (IAC); Lambert D. L. (McDonald Observatory, University of Texas), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press. A preprint of the paper can be seen at [link to arxiv.org] [link to www.physorg.com]

The idea that comets and meteorites seeded an early Earth with the tools to make life has gained momentum from recent observations of some of these building blocks floating throughout the cosmos.

PANHs carry information for DNA and RNA and are an important component of hemoglobin, the molecule that transports oxygen through the body. They also make chlorophyll, the main molecule responsible for photosynthesis in plants, and – perhaps most importantly – they're the main ingredient in caffeine and chocolate.

"There once was a time that the assumption was that the origin of life, everything from building simple compounds up to complex life, had to happen here on Earth," said study leader Doug Hudgins of Ames Research Center. "We've discovered that some very biologically interesting molecules can be formed outside our earthly environment and delivered here."

Wherever there's a planet ...

While organic compounds have been discovered in meteorites that have landed on Earth, this is the first direct evidence for the presence of complex, important biogenic compounds in space. So far evidence suggests that PANHs are formed in the winds of dying stars and spread all over interstellar space.

"This stuff contains the building blocks of life, and now we can say they're abundant in space," Hudgins said. "And wherever there's a planet out there, we know that these things are going to be raining down on it. It did here and it does elsewhere." [link to www.space.com]

A two-year survey of enormous interstellar dust clouds has turned up eight organic molecules in two different regions of space. One is a stellar nursery awash in light while the other is a cold, starless void.

The finding, detailed in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal, supports other recent studies suggesting molecules important for life commonly form in the gas and dust clouds that condense to form stars and planets.

Space tumbleweeds

The molecules are thought to form by two main mechanisms. In the first, simple chemical reactions add an atom to a molecule that is stuck to the surface of a dust grain afloat in space. The second method involves chemical reactions between neutral molecules and highly reactive molecules called radicals.

Once formed, the molecules are shaken loose from their dust-grain homes by rapidly moving shock waves. As the freed molecules tumble end-over-end in space, they can emit or absorb radiation at precise radio frequencies unique to each type of molecule. Astronomers identify the molecules based on these radio frequencies.

Within a dust cloud, thousands of billions of molecules undergo the same types of rotation, emitting and absorbing the same radio frequencies. The end result is a signal strong enough to be detected by instruments on Earth.

The newfound molecules bring the total number of biologically-relevant molecules found in interstellar space to 141. Scientists have previously found benzene, a ring-shaped carbon molecule important for life on Earth, around stars and intact amino acids in meteorites that have crash-landed on Earth.

Even more complex molecular creations might be possible in space, experiments suggest. In one study, scientists simulated deep space conditions in the laboratory and created small structures resembling cell walls in living organisms.

A case for extraterrestrial life

Taken together, the findings suggest that the chemical ingredients necessary for life began taking shape long before our planet was formed.

Many scientists now accept the notion that ancient meteorites and comets helped jumpstart life on our planet by bringing a significant amount of water, organic molecules and even amino acids to early Earth. [link to www.space.com]

Astrochemists have long argued that the Life molecules, water (H2O) and oxygen (O2), are highly abundant in the denser regions of the interstellar medium. One of the primary goals of the Odin astronomy mission was to use spectral line data from molecular oxygen (O2) and water H2O) to study processes of star formation.

*snip*

The actual observations were made during 33 days over a period from August 2002 to February 2006. After careful processing and detailed analysis of more than 300 000 spectra, the O2 line is convincingly visible, at a level of five times above the noise. The characteristics of the observed O2 profile are precisely as expected, based on the profiles of the spectral lines from other species like atomic carbon, carbon monoxide and water vapour, observed from the same cloud with ground-based telescopes and with Odin.

So now they've found that UV causes the molecules to break apart, which are provided by the clouds, and then get recombined to create water and other compounds. Interesting. Thanks sickscent.

Astrochemists have long argued that the Life molecules, water (H2O) and oxygen (O2), are highly abundant in the denser regions of the interstellar medium. One of the primary goals of the Odin astronomy mission was to use spectral line data from molecular oxygen (O2) and water H2O) to study processes of star formation.

*snip*

The actual observations were made during 33 days over a period from August 2002 to February 2006. After careful processing and detailed analysis of more than 300 000 spectra, the O2 line is convincingly visible, at a level of five times above the noise. The characteristics of the observed O2 profile are precisely as expected, based on the profiles of the spectral lines from other species like atomic carbon, carbon monoxide and water vapour, observed from the same cloud with ground-based telescopes and with Odin.

So now they've found that UV causes the molecules to break apart, which are provided by the clouds, and then get recombined to create water and other compounds. Interesting. Thanks sickscent.

Quoting: Xenus

One of the 'sparks' I found also, was when a comet was showing water in its tail, when it should have long ago 'burned' off...

H2 is actually pretty abundant in molecular form in space and all it needs is some Oxygen, water is not as scare as you've been led to believe. To tie in with your thread I have this "little" bit of information. We know that planetoids and planets form inside these clouds and that copious amounts of dust is required, add movement and sit back and watch.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Texas has succeeded in identifying one of the most complex organic molecules yet found in the material between the stars, the so-called interstellar medium. The discovery of anthracene could help resolve a decades-old astrophysical mystery concerning the production of organic molecules in space. The researchers report their findings in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

'We have detected the presence of anthracene molecules in a dense cloud in the direction of the star Cernis 52 in Perseus, about 700 light years from the Sun,' explains Susana Iglesias Groth, the IAC researcher heading the study.

In her opinion, the next step is to investigate the presence of amino acids. Molecules like anthracene are prebiotic, so when they are subjected to ultraviolet radiation and combined with water and ammonia, they could produce amino acids and other compounds essential for the development of life

'Two years ago,' says Iglesias, 'we found proof of the existence of another organic molecule, naphthalene, in the same place, so everything indicates that we have discovered a star formation region rich in prebiotic chemistry.' Until now, anthracene had been detected only in meteorites and never in the interstellar medium. Oxidized forms of this molecule are common in living systems and are biochemically active. On our planet, oxidized anthracene is a basic component of aloe and has anti-inflammatory properties.

The new finding suggests that a good part of the key components in terrestrial prebiotic chemistry could be present in interstellar matter.

Since the 1980s, hundreds of bands found in the spectrum of the interstellar medium, known as diffuse spectroscopic bands, have been known to be associated with interstellar matter, but their origin has not been identified until now. This discovery indicates that they could result from molecular forms based on anthracene or naphthalene. Since they are widely distributed in interstellar space, they might have played a key role in the production of many of the organic molecules present at the time of the formation of the Solar System.

The results are based on observations carried out at the William Herschel Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands and with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas in the United States.

More information: The new work appears in the paper “Anthracene cations toward the Perseus molecular complex", S. Iglesias Groth S., Manchado A., Rebolo R., González J. I., García Hernández A. (IAC); Lambert D. L. (McDonald Observatory, University of Texas), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press. A preprint of the paper can be seen at [link to arxiv.org] [link to www.physorg.com]

The idea that comets and meteorites seeded an early Earth with the tools to make life has gained momentum from recent observations of some of these building blocks floating throughout the cosmos.

PANHs carry information for DNA and RNA and are an important component of hemoglobin, the molecule that transports oxygen through the body. They also make chlorophyll, the main molecule responsible for photosynthesis in plants, and – perhaps most importantly – they're the main ingredient in caffeine and chocolate.

"There once was a time that the assumption was that the origin of life, everything from building simple compounds up to complex life, had to happen here on Earth," said study leader Doug Hudgins of Ames Research Center. "We've discovered that some very biologically interesting molecules can be formed outside our earthly environment and delivered here."

Wherever there's a planet ...

While organic compounds have been discovered in meteorites that have landed on Earth, this is the first direct evidence for the presence of complex, important biogenic compounds in space. So far evidence suggests that PANHs are formed in the winds of dying stars and spread all over interstellar space.

"This stuff contains the building blocks of life, and now we can say they're abundant in space," Hudgins said. "And wherever there's a planet out there, we know that these things are going to be raining down on it. It did here and it does elsewhere." [link to www.space.com]

A two-year survey of enormous interstellar dust clouds has turned up eight organic molecules in two different regions of space. One is a stellar nursery awash in light while the other is a cold, starless void.

The finding, detailed in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal, supports other recent studies suggesting molecules important for life commonly form in the gas and dust clouds that condense to form stars and planets.

Space tumbleweeds

The molecules are thought to form by two main mechanisms. In the first, simple chemical reactions add an atom to a molecule that is stuck to the surface of a dust grain afloat in space. The second method involves chemical reactions between neutral molecules and highly reactive molecules called radicals.

Once formed, the molecules are shaken loose from their dust-grain homes by rapidly moving shock waves. As the freed molecules tumble end-over-end in space, they can emit or absorb radiation at precise radio frequencies unique to each type of molecule. Astronomers identify the molecules based on these radio frequencies.

Within a dust cloud, thousands of billions of molecules undergo the same types of rotation, emitting and absorbing the same radio frequencies. The end result is a signal strong enough to be detected by instruments on Earth.

The newfound molecules bring the total number of biologically-relevant molecules found in interstellar space to 141. Scientists have previously found benzene, a ring-shaped carbon molecule important for life on Earth, around stars and intact amino acids in meteorites that have crash-landed on Earth.

Even more complex molecular creations might be possible in space, experiments suggest. In one study, scientists simulated deep space conditions in the laboratory and created small structures resembling cell walls in living organisms.

A case for extraterrestrial life

Taken together, the findings suggest that the chemical ingredients necessary for life began taking shape long before our planet was formed.

Many scientists now accept the notion that ancient meteorites and comets helped jumpstart life on our planet by bringing a significant amount of water, organic molecules and even amino acids to early Earth. [link to www.space.com]

Just glad my bookmarked information is coming in handy, eerily more often than not. People still seem to think comets are nothing more than icy snowballs when in fact they are so much more complex than that. The tails of comets are ionic, meaning charged and hence why they always point away from the sun, it's due to the solar wind. As a comet gets closer to the sun it becomes enveloped in a plasma, same thing happens to meteorites as they enter the atmosphere, the heat creates a layer of plasma which fuses our atmosphere with the elements on the meteorite. You can see this here; [link to www.niger-meteorite-recon.de]

Fusion occurs inside plasma, hence why I feel understanding the processes is vital for humanity, not only can we get virtually unlimited energy but also be able to create and change matter. In alchemy this was known as the philospher's stone.

In alchemy

The Great Work (Latin: Magnum opus) is a term which originated in medieval European alchemy which refers to the successful completion of the transmutation of base matter into gold or the creation of the philosopher's stone. It has subsequently been used as a metaphor for spiritual transformation in the Hermetic tradition. It originally had four stages:[2]

The Bubble Nebula illustrates how revolutionary progress in theoretical understanding changes our perceptions of the universe.

Before space telescopes and modern telescope technology, astronomers photographed rings of dim light. They called them planetary nebulae. Under the accepted presumptions about exploding stars, they concluded that the rings were spherical bubbles of hot gas. The appearance of the ring was due to edge-brightening, the increase of luminance from viewing a greater depth of gas at the edge of a sphere.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has captured a remarkable image of a spiral in space. No, not a spiral galaxy, (and not another Norway Spiral!) but the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula in one of the most perfect geometrical spirals ever seen. The nebula, called IRAS 23166+1655, is forming around the star LL Pegasi (also known as AFGL 3068) in the constellation of Pegasus.

The image shows what appears to be a thin spiral pattern of amazing precision winding around the star, which is itself hidden behind thick dust. Mark Morris from UCLA and an international team of astronomers say that material forming the spiral is moving outwards at a speed of about 50,000 km/hour and by combining this speed with the distance between layers, they calculate that the shells are each separated by about 800 years.

The spiral pattern suggests a regular periodic origin for the nebula’s shape, and astronomers believe that shape is forming because LL Pegasi is a binary star system. One star is losing material as it and the companion star are orbiting each other. The spacing between layers in the spiral is expected to directly reflect the orbital period of the binary, which is estimated to be also about 800 years.

The Urantia BookPaper 57The Origin of Urantia *(651.1) 57:0.1 IN PRESENTING excerpts from the archives of Jerusem for the records of Urantia respecting itsantecedents and early history, we are directed to reckon time in terms of current usage — the presentleap-year calendar of 365¼ days to the year. As a rule, no attempt will be made to give exact years,though they are of record. We will use the nearest whole numbers as the better method of presenting thesehistoric facts.(651.2) 57:0.2 When referring to an event as of one or two millions of years ago, we intend to date such anoccurrence back that number of years from the early decades of the twentieth century of the Christian era.We will thus depict these far-distant events as occurring in even periods of thousands, millions, and billionsof years.1. The Andronover Nebula(651.3) 57:1.1 Urantia is of origin in your sun, and your sun is one of the multifarious offspring of theAndronover nebula, which was onetime organized as a component part of the physical power and materialmatter of the local universe of Nebadon. And this great nebula itself took origin in the universal forcechargeof space in the superuniverse of Orvonton, long, long ago.(651.4) 57:1.2 At the time of the beginning of this recital, the Primary Master Force Organizers of Paradise hadlong been in full control of the space-energies which were later organized as the Andronover nebula.(651.5) 57:1.3 987,000,000,000 years ago associate force organizer and then acting inspector number 811,307of the Orvonton series, traveling out from Uversa, reported to the Ancients of Days that space conditionswere favorable for the initiation of materialization phenomena in a certain sector of the, then, easterlysegment of Orvonton.(651.6) 57:1.4 900,000,000,000 years ago, the Uversa archives testify, there was recorded a permit issued bythe Uversa Council of Equilibrium to the superuniverse government authorizing the dispatch of a forceorganizer and staff to the region previously designated by inspector number 811,307. The Orvontonauthorities commissioned the original discoverer of this potential universe to execute the mandate of theAncients of Days calling for the organization of a new material creation. *(652.1) 57:1.5 The recording of this permit signifies that the force organizer and staff had already departed fromUversa on the long journey to that easterly space sector where they were subsequently to engage in thoseprotracted activities which would terminate in the emergence of a new physical creation in Orvonton.(652.2) 57:1.6 875,000,000,000 years ago the enormous Andronover nebula number 876,926 was duly initiated.Only the presence of the force organizer and the liaison staff was required to inaugurate the energy whirlwhich eventually grew into this vast cyclone of space. Subsequent to the initiation of such nebularrevolutions, the living force organizers simply withdraw at right angles to the plane of the revolutionarydisk, and from that time forward, the inherent qualities of energy insure the progressive and orderlyevolution of such a new physical system.(652.3) 57:1.7 At about this time the narrative shifts to the functioning of the personalities of the superuniverse.In reality the story has its proper beginning at this point — at just about the time the Paradise forceorganizers are preparing to withdraw, having made the space-energy conditions ready for the action of thepower directors and physical controllers of the superuniverse of Orvonton.2. The Primary Nebular Stage(652.4) 57:2.1 All evolutionary material creations are born of circular and gaseous nebulae, and all such primarynebulae are circular throughout the early part of their gaseous existence. As they grow older, they usuallybecome spiral, and when their function of sun formation has run its course, they often terminate asclusters of stars or as enormous suns surrounded by a varying number of planets, satellites, and smallergroups of matter in many ways resembling your own diminutive solar system.(652.5) 57:2.2 800,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover creation was well established as one of themagnificent primary nebulae of Orvonton. As the astronomers of near-by universes looked out upon thisphenomenon of space, they saw very little to attract their attention. Gravity estimates made in adjacentcreations indicated that space materializations were taking place in the Andronover regions, but that wasall.(652.6) 57:2.3 700,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover system was assuming gigantic proportions, andadditional physical controllers were dispatched to nine surrounding material creations to afford support andsupply co-operation to the power centers of this new material system which was so rapidly evolving. At thisdistant date all of the material bequeathed to the subsequent creations was held within the confines of thisgigantic space wheel, which continued ever to whirl and, after reaching its maximum of diameter, to whirlfaster and faster as it continued to condense and contract.(652.7) 57:2.4 600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the Andronover energy-mobilization period wasattained; the nebula had acquired its maximum of mass. At this time it was a gigantic circular gas cloud inshape somewhat like a flattened spheroid. This was the early period of differential mass formation andvarying revolutionary velocity. Gravity and other influences were about to begin their work of convertingspace gases into organized matter.3. The Secondary Nebular Stage(653.1) 57:3.1 The enormous nebula now began gradually to assume the spiral form and to become clearlyvisible to the astronomers of even distant universes. This is the natural history of most nebulae; beforethey begin to throw off suns and start upon the work of universe building, these secondary space nebulaeare usually observed as spiral phenomena.(653.2) 57:3.2 The near-by star students of that faraway era, as they observed this metamorphosis of theAndronover nebula, saw exactly what twentieth-century astronomers see when they turn their telescopesspaceward and view the present-age spiral nebulae of adjacent outer space.(653.3) 57:3.3 About the time of the attainment of the maximum of mass, the gravity control of the gaseouscontent commenced to weaken, and there ensued the stage of gas escapement, the gas streaming forth astwo gigantic and distinct arms, which took origin on opposite sides of the mother mass. The rapidrevolutions of this enormous central core soon imparted a spiral appearance to these two projecting gasstreams. The cooling and subsequent condensation of portions of these protruding arms eventuallyproduced their knotted appearance. These denser portions were vast systems and subsystems of physicalmatter whirling through space in the midst of the gaseous cloud of the nebula while being held securelywithin the gravity grasp of the mother wheel.(653.4) 57:3.4 But the nebula had begun to contract, and the increase in the rate of revolution further lessenedgravity control; and erelong, the outer gaseous regions began actually to escape from the immediateembrace of the nebular nucleus, passing out into space on circuits of irregular outline, returning to thenuclear regions to complete their circuits, and so on. But this was only a temporary stage of nebularprogression. The ever-increasing rate of whirling was soon to throw enormous suns off into space onindependent circuits.(653.5) 57:3.5 And this is what happened in Andronover ages upon ages ago. The energy wheel grew and grewuntil it attained its maximum of expansion, and then, when contraction set in, it whirled on faster andfaster until, eventually, the critical centrifugal stage was reached and the great breakup began.(653.6) 57:3.6 500,000,000,000 years ago the first Andronover sun was born. This blazing streak broke awayfrom the mother gravity grasp and tore out into space on an independent adventure in the cosmos ofcreation. Its orbit was determined by its path of escape. Such young suns quickly become spherical andstart out on their long and eventful careers as the stars of space. Excepting terminal nebular nucleuses, thevast majority of Orvonton suns have had an analogous birth. These escaping suns pass through variedperiods of evolution and subsequent universe service.(653.7) 57:3.7 400,000,000,000 years ago began the recaptive period of the Andronover nebula. Many of thenear-by and smaller suns were recaptured as a result of the gradual enlargement and further condensationof the mother nucleus. Very soon there was inaugurated the terminal phase of nebular condensation, theperiod which always precedes the final segregation of these immense space aggregations of energy andmatter.(654.1) 57:3.8 It was scarcely a million years subsequent to this epoch that Michael of Nebadon, a Creator Sonof Paradise, selected this disintegrating nebula as the site of his adventure in universe building. Almostimmediately the architectural worlds of Salvington and the one hundred constellation headquarters groupsof planets were begun. It required almost one million years to complete these clusters of specially createdworlds. The local system headquarters planets were constructed over a period extending from that time toabout five billion years ago.(654.2) 57:3.9 300,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover solar circuits were well established, and the nebularsystem was passing through a transient period of relative physical stability. About this time the staff ofMichael arrived on Salvington, and the Uversa government of Orvonton extended physical recognition tothe local universe of Nebadon.(654.3) 57:3.10 200,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the progression of contraction and condensation withenormous heat generation in the Andronover central cluster, or nuclear mass. Relative space appearedeven in the regions near the central mother-sun wheel. The outer regions were becoming more stabilizedand better organized; some planets revolving around the newborn suns had cooled sufficiently to besuitable for life implantation. The oldest inhabited planets of Nebadon date from these times.(654.4) 57:3.11 Now the completed universe mechanism of Nebadon first begins to function, and Michael’screation is registered on Uversa as a universe of inhabitation and progressive mortal ascension.(654.5) 57:3.12 100,000,000,000 years ago the nebular apex of condensation tension was reached; the point ofmaximum heat tension was attained. This critical stage of gravity-heat contention sometimes lasts forages, but sooner or later, heat wins the struggle with gravity, and the spectacular period of sun dispersionbegins. And this marks the end of the secondary career of a space nebula.4. Tertiary and Quartan Stages(654.6) 57:4.1 The primary stage of a nebula is circular; the secondary, spiral; the tertiary stage is that of thefirst sun dispersion, while the quartan embraces the second and last cycle of sun dispersion, with themother nucleus ending either as a globular cluster or as a solitary sun functioning as the center of aterminal solar system.(654.7) 57:4.2 75,000,000,000 years ago this nebula had attained the height of its sun-family stage. This wasthe apex of the first period of sun losses. The majority of these suns have since possessed themselves ofextensive systems of planets, satellites, dark islands, comets, meteors, and cosmic dust clouds.(654.8) 57:4.3 50,000,000,000 years ago this first period of sun dispersion was completed; the nebula was fastfinishing its tertiary cycle of existence, during which it gave origin to 876,926 sun systems.(654.9) 57:4.4 25,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the completion of the tertiary cycle of nebular life andbrought about the organization and relative stabilization of the far-flung starry systems derived from thisparent nebula. But the process of physical contraction and increased heat production continued in thecentral mass of the nebular remnant.(655.1) 57:4.5 10,000,000,000 years ago the quartan cycle of Andronover began. The maximum of nuclearmasstemperature had been attained; the critical point of condensation was approaching. The originalmother nucleus was convulsing under the combined pressure of its own internal-heat condensation tensionand the increasing gravity-tidal pull of the surrounding swarm of liberated sun systems. The nucleareruptions which were to inaugurate the second nebular sun cycle were imminent. The quartan cycle ofnebular existence was about to begin.(655.2) 57:4.6 8,000,000,000 years ago the terrific terminal eruption began. Only the outer systems are safe atthe time of such a cosmic upheaval. And this was the beginning of the end of the nebula. This final sundisgorgement extended over a period of almost two billion years.(655.3) 57:4.7 7,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the height of the Andronover terminal breakup. This was theperiod of the birth of the larger terminal suns and the apex of the local physical disturbances.(655.4) 57:4.8 6,000,000,000 years ago marks the end of the terminal breakup and the birth of your sun, thefifty-sixth from the last of the Andronover second solar family. This final eruption of the nebular nucleusgave birth to 136,702 suns, most of them solitary orbs. The total number of suns and sun systems havingorigin in the Andronover nebula was 1,013,628. The number of the solar system sun is 1,013,572.(655.5) 57:4.9 And now the great Andronover nebula is no more, but it lives on in the many suns and theirplanetary families which originated in this mother cloud of space. The final nuclear remnant of thismagnificent nebula still burns with a reddish glow and continues to give forth moderate light and heat to itsremnant planetary family of one hundred and sixty-five worlds, which now revolve about this venerablemother of two mighty generations of the monarchs of light.5. Origin of Monmatia — The Urantia Solar System(655.6) 57:5.1 5,000,000,000 years ago your sun was a comparatively isolated blazing orb, having gathered toitself most of the near-by circulating matter of space, remnants of the recent upheaval which attended itsown birth.(655.7) 57:5.2 Today, your sun has achieved relative stability, but its eleven and one-half year sunspot cyclesbetray that it was a variable star in its youth. In the early days of your sun the continued contraction andconsequent gradual increase of temperature initiated tremendous convulsions on its surface. These titanicheaves required three and one-half days to complete a cycle of varying brightness. This variable state, thisperiodic pulsation, rendered your sun highly responsive to certain outside influences which were to beshortly encountered.(655.8) 57:5.3 Thus was the stage of local space set for the unique origin of Monmatia, that being the name ofyour sun’s planetary family, the solar system to which your world belongs. Less than one per cent of theplanetary systems of Orvonton have had a similar origin.(655.9) 57:5.4 4,500,000,000 years ago the enormous Angona system began its approach to the neighborhoodof this solitary sun. The center of this great system was a dark giant of space, solid, highly charged, andpossessing tremendous gravity pull.(656.1) 57:5.5 As Angona more closely approached the sun, at moments of maximum expansion during solarpulsations, streams of gaseous material were shot out into space as gigantic solar tongues. At first theseflaming gas tongues would invariably fall back into the sun, but as Angona drew nearer and nearer, thegravity pull of the gigantic visitor became so great that these tongues of gas would break off at certainpoints, the roots falling back into the sun while the outer sections would become detached to formindependent bodies of matter, solar meteorites, which immediately started to revolve about the sun inelliptical orbits of their own.(656.2) 57:5.6 As the Angona system drew nearer, the solar extrusions grew larger and larger; more and morematter was drawn from the sun to become independent circulating bodies in surrounding space. Thissituation developed for about five hundred thousand years until Angona made its closest approach to thesun; whereupon the sun, in conjunction with one of its periodic internal convulsions, experienced a partialdisruption; from opposite sides and simultaneously, enormous volumes of matter were disgorged. From theAngona side there was drawn out a vast column of solar gases, rather pointed at both ends and markedlybulging at the center, which became permanently detached from the immediate gravity control of the sun.(656.3) 57:5.7 This great column of solar gases which was thus separated from the sun subsequently evolvedinto the twelve planets of the solar system. The repercussional ejection of gas from the opposite side of thesun in tidal sympathy with the extrusion of this gigantic solar system ancestor, has since condensed intothe meteors and space dust of the solar system, although much, very much, of this matter wassubsequently recaptured by solar gravity as the Angona system receded into remote space.(656.4) 57:5.8 Although Angona succeeded in drawing away the ancestral material of the solar system planetsand the enormous volume of matter now circulating about the sun as asteroids and meteors, it did notsecure for itself any of this solar matter. The visiting system did not come quite close enough to actuallysteal any of the sun’s substance, but it did swing sufficiently close to draw off into the intervening space allof the material comprising the present-day solar system.(656.5) 57:5.9 The five inner and five outer planets soon formed in miniature from the cooling and condensingnucleuses in the less massive and tapering ends of the gigantic gravity bulge which Angona had succeededin detaching from the sun, while Saturn and Jupiter were formed from the more massive and bulgingcentral portions. The powerful gravity pull of Jupiter and Saturn early captured most of the material stolenfrom Angona as the retrograde motion of certain of their satellites bears witness.(656.6) 57:5.10 Jupiter and Saturn, being derived from the very center of the enormous column of superheatedsolar gases, contained so much highly heated sun material that they shone with a brilliant light and emittedenormous volumes of heat; they were in reality secondary suns for a short period after their formation asseparate space bodies. These two largest of the solar system planets have remained largely gaseous to thisday, not even yet having cooled off to the point of complete condensation or solidification.(656.7) 57:5.11 The gas-contraction nucleuses of the other ten planets soon reached the stage of solidificationand so began to draw to themselves increasing quantities of the meteoric matter circulating in near-byspace. The worlds of the solar system thus had a double origin: nucleuses of gas condensation later onaugmented by the capture of enormous quantities of meteors. Indeed they still continue to capturemeteors, but in greatly lessened numbers.(657.1) 57:5.12 The planets do not swing around the sun in the equatorial plane of their solar mother, whichthey would do if they had been thrown off by solar revolution. Rather, they travel in the plane of theAngona solar extrusion, which existed at a considerable angle to the plane of the sun’s equator.(657.2) 57:5.13 While Angona was unable to capture any of the solar mass, your sun did add to itsmetamorphosing planetary family some of the circulating space material of the visiting system. Due to theintense gravity field of Angona, its tributary planetary family pursued orbits of considerable distance fromthe dark giant; and shortly after the extrusion of the solar system ancestral mass and while Angona wasyet in the vicinity of the sun, three of the major planets of the Angona system swung so near to themassive solar system ancestor that its gravitational pull, augmented by that of the sun, was sufficient tooverbalance the gravity grasp of Angona and to permanently detach these three tributaries of the celestialwanderer.(657.3) 57:5.14 All of the solar system material derived from the sun was originally endowed with ahomogeneous direction of orbital swing, and had it not been for the intrusion of these three foreign spacebodies, all solar system material would still maintain the same direction of orbital movement. As it was, theimpact of the three Angona tributaries injected new and foreign directional forces into the emerging solarsystem with the resultant appearance of retrograde motion. Retrograde motion in any astronomic system isalways accidental and always appears as a result of the collisional impact of foreign space bodies. Suchcollisions may not always produce retrograde motion, but no retrograde ever appears except in a systemcontaining masses which have diverse origins.6. The Solar System Stage — The Planet-Forming Era(657.4) 57:6.1 Subsequent to the birth of the solar system a period of diminishing solar disgorgement ensued.Decreasingly, for another five hundred thousand years, the sun continued to pour forth diminishingvolumes of matter into surrounding space. But during these early times of erratic orbits, when thesurrounding bodies made their nearest approach to the sun, the solar parent was able to recapture a largeportion of this meteoric material.(657.5) 57:6.2 The planets nearest the sun were the first to have their revolutions slowed down by tidal friction.Such gravitational influences also contribute to the stabilization of planetary orbits while acting as a brakeon the rate of planetary-axial revolution, causing a planet to revolve ever slower until axial revolutionceases, leaving one hemisphere of the planet always turned toward the sun or larger body, as is illustratedby the planet Mercury and by the moon, which always turns the same face toward Urantia.(657.6) 57:6.3 When the tidal frictions of the moon and the earth become equalized, the earth will always turnthe same hemisphere toward the moon, and the day and month will be analogous — in length about fortysevendays. When such stability of orbits is attained, tidal frictions will go into reverse action, no longerdriving the moon farther away from the earth but gradually drawing the satellite toward the planet. Andthen, in that far-distant future when the moon approaches to within about eleven thousand miles of theearth, the gravity action of the latter will cause the moon to disrupt, and this tidal-gravity explosion willshatter the moon into small particles, which may assemble about the world as rings of matter resemblingthose of Saturn or may be gradually drawn into the earth as meteors.(658.1) 57:6.4 If space bodies are similar in size and density, collisions may occur. But if two space bodies ofsimilar density are relatively unequal in size, then, if the smaller progressively approaches the larger, thedisruption of the smaller body will occur when the radius of its orbit becomes less than two and one-halftimes the radius of the larger body. Collisions among the giants of space are rare indeed, but thesegravity-tidal explosions of lesser bodies are quite common.(658.2) 57:6.5 Shooting stars occur in swarms because they are the fragments of larger bodies of matter whichhave been disrupted by tidal gravity exerted by near-by and still larger space bodies. Saturn’s rings are thefragments of a disrupted satellite. One of the moons of Jupiter is now approaching dangerously near thecritical zone of tidal disruption and, within a few million years, will either be claimed by the planet or willundergo gravity-tidal disruption. The fifth planet of the solar system of long, long ago traversed anirregular orbit, periodically making closer and closer approach to Jupiter until it entered the critical zone ofgravity-tidal disruption, was swiftly fragmentized, and became the present-day cluster of asteroids.(658.3) 57:6.6 4,000,000,000 years ago witnessed the organization of the Jupiter and Saturn systems much asobserved today except for their moons, which continued to increase in size for several billions of years. Infact, all of the planets and satellites of the solar system are still growing as the result of continued meteoriccaptures.(658.4) 57:6.7 3,500,000,000 years ago the condensation nucleuses of the other ten planets were well formed,and the cores of most of the moons were intact, though some of the smaller satellites later united to makethe present-day larger moons. This age may be regarded as the era of planetary assembly.(658.5) 57:6.8 3,000,000,000 years ago the solar system was functioning much as it does today. Its memberscontinued to grow in size as space meteors continued to pour in upon the planets and their satellites at aprodigious rate.(658.6) 57:6.9 About this time your solar system was placed on the physical registry of Nebadon and given itsname, Monmatia.(658.7) 57:6.102,500,000,000 years ago the planets had grown immensely in size. Urantia was a well-developedsphere about one tenth its present mass and was still growing rapidly by meteoric accretion.(658.8) 57:6.11 All of this tremendous activity is a normal part of the making of an evolutionary world on theorder of Urantia and constitutes the astronomic preliminaries to the setting of the stage for the beginning ofthe physical evolution of such worlds of space in preparation for the life adventures of time.7. The Meteoric Era — The Volcanic AgeThe Primitive Planetary Atmosphere(658.9) 57:7.1 Throughout these early times the space regions of the solar system were swarming with smalldisruptive and condensation bodies, and in the absence of a protective combustion atmosphere such spacebodies crashed directly on the surface of Urantia. These incessant impacts kept the surface of the planetmore or less heated, and this, together with the increased action of gravity as the sphere grew larger,began to set in operation those influences which gradually caused the heavier elements, such as iron, tosettle more and more toward the center of the planet.(659.1) 57:7.2 2,000,000,000 years ago the earth began decidedly to gain on the moon. Always had the planetbeen larger than its satellite, but there was not so much difference in size until about this time, whenenormous space bodies were captured by the earth. Urantia was then about one fifth its present size andhad become large enough to hold the primitive atmosphere which had begun to appear as a result of theinternal elemental contest between the heated interior and the cooling crust.(659.2) 57:7.3 Definite volcanic action dates from these times. The internal heat of the earth continued to beaugmented by the deeper and deeper burial of the radioactive or heavier elements brought in from spaceby the meteors. The study of these radioactive elements will reveal that Urantia is more than one billionyears old on its surface. The radium clock is your most reliable timepiece for making scientific estimates ofthe age of the planet, but all such estimates are too short because the radioactive materials open to yourscrutiny are all derived from the earth’s surface and hence represent Urantia’s comparatively recentacquirements of these elements.(659.3) 57:7.4 1,500,000,000 years ago the earth was two thirds its present size, while the moon was nearingits present mass. Earth’s rapid gain over the moon in size enabled it to begin the slow robbery of the littleatmosphere which its satellite originally had.(659.4) 57:7.5 Volcanic action is now at its height. The whole earth is a veritable fiery inferno, the surfaceresembling its earlier molten state before the heavier metals gravitated toward the center. This is thevolcanic age. Nevertheless, a crust, consisting chiefly of the comparatively lighter granite, is graduallyforming. The stage is being set for a planet which can someday support life.(659.5) 57:7.6 The primitive planetary atmosphere is slowly evolving, now containing some water vapor, carbonmonoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen chloride, but there is little or no free nitrogen or free oxygen. Theatmosphere of a world in the volcanic age presents a queer spectacle. In addition to the gases enumeratedit is heavily charged with numerous volcanic gases and, as the air belt matures, with the combustionproducts of the heavy meteoric showers which are constantly hurtling in upon the planetary surface. Suchmeteoric combustion keeps the atmospheric oxygen very nearly exhausted, and the rate of meteoricbombardment is still tremendous.(659.6) 57:7.7 Presently, the atmosphere became more settled and cooled sufficiently to start precipitation ofrain on the hot rocky surface of the planet. For thousands of years Urantia was enveloped in one vast andcontinuous blanket of steam. And during these ages the sun never shone upon the earth’s surface.(659.7) 57:7.8 Much of the carbon of the atmosphere was abstracted to form the carbonates of the variousmetals which abounded in the superficial layers of the planet. Later on, much greater quantities of thesecarbon gases were consumed by the early and prolific plant life.(660.1) 57:7.9 Even in the later periods the continuing lava flows and the incoming meteors kept the oxygen ofthe air almost completely used up. Even the early deposits of the soon appearing primitive ocean containno colored stones or shales. And for a long time after this ocean appeared, there was virtually no freeoxygen in the atmosphere; and it did not appear in significant quantities until it was later generated by theseaweeds and other forms of vegetable life.(660.2) 57:7.10 The primitive planetary atmosphere of the volcanic age affords little protection against thecollisional impacts of the meteoric swarms. Millions upon millions of meteors are able to penetrate such anair belt to smash against the planetary crust as solid bodies. But as time passes, fewer and fewer provelarge enough to resist the ever-stronger friction shield of the oxygen-enriching atmosphere of the latereras.8. Crustal StabilizationThe Age of EarthquakesThe World Ocean and the First Continent(660.3) 57:8.1 1,000,000,000 years ago is the date of the actual beginning of Urantia history. The planet hadattained approximately its present size. And about this time it was placed upon the physical registries ofNebadon and given its name, Urantia.(660.4) 57:8.2 The atmosphere, together with incessant moisture precipitation, facilitated the cooling of theearth’s crust. Volcanic action early equalized internal-heat pressure and crustal contraction; and asvolcanoes rapidly decreased, earthquakes made their appearance as this epoch of crustal cooling andadjustment progressed.(660.5) 57:8.3 The real geologic history of Urantia begins with the cooling of the earth’s crust sufficiently tocause the formation of the first ocean. Water-vapor condensation on the cooling surface of the earth, oncebegun, continued until it was virtually complete. By the end of this period the ocean was world-wide,covering the entire planet to an average depth of over one mile. The tides were then in play much as theyare now observed, but this primitive ocean was not salty; it was practically a fresh-water covering for theworld. In those days, most of the chlorine was combined with various metals, but there was enough, inunion with hydrogen, to render this water faintly acid.(660.6) 57:8.4 At the opening of this faraway era, Urantia should be envisaged as a water-bound planet. Lateron, deeper and hence denser lava flows came out upon the bottom of the present Pacific Ocean, and thispart of the water-covered surface became considerably depressed. The first continental land mass emergedfrom the world ocean in compensatory adjustment of the equilibrium of the gradually thickening earth’scrust.(660.7) 57:8.5 950,000,000 years ago Urantia presents the picture of one great continent of land and one largebody of water, the Pacific Ocean. Volcanoes are still widespread and earthquakes are both frequent andsevere. Meteors continue to bombard the earth, but they are diminishing in both frequency and size. Theatmosphere is clearing up, but the amount of carbon dioxide continues large. The earth’s crust is graduallystabilizing.(660.8) 57:8.6 It was at about this time that Urantia was assigned to the system of Satania for planetaryadministration and was placed on the life registry of Norlatiadek. Then began the administrative recognitionof the small and insignificant sphere which was destined to be the planet whereon Michael wouldsubsequently engage in the stupendous undertaking of mortal bestowal, would participate in thoseexperiences which have since caused Urantia to become locally known as the “world of the cross.”(661.1) 57:8.7 900,000,000 years ago witnessed the arrival on Urantia of the first Satania scouting party sentout from Jerusem to examine the planet and make a report on its adaptation for a life-experiment station.This commission consisted of twenty-four members, embracing Life Carriers, Lanonandek Sons,Melchizedeks, seraphim, and other orders of celestial life having to do with the early days of planetaryorganization and administration.(661.2) 57:8.8 After making a painstaking survey of the planet, this commission returned to Jerusem andreported favorably to the System Sovereign, recommending that Urantia be placed on the life-experimentregistry. Your world was accordingly registered on Jerusem as a decimal planet, and the Life Carriers werenotified that they would be granted permission to institute new patterns of mechanical, chemical, andelectrical mobilization at the time of their subsequent arrival with life transplantation and implantationmandates.(661.3) 57:8.9 In due course arrangements for the planetary occupation were completed by the mixedcommission of twelve on Jerusem and approved by the planetary commission of seventy on Edentia. Theseplans, proposed by the advisory counselors of the Life Carriers, were finally accepted on Salvington. Soonthereafter the Nebadon broadcasts carried the announcement that Urantia would become the stagewhereon the Life Carriers would execute their sixtieth Satania experiment designed to amplify and improvethe Satania type of the Nebadon life patterns.(661.4) 57:8.10 Shortly after Urantia was first recognized on the universe broadcasts to all Nebadon, it wasaccorded full universe status. Soon thereafter it was registered in the records of the minor and the majorsector headquarters planets of the superuniverse; and before this age was over, Urantia had found entry onthe planetary-life registry of Uversa.(661.5) 57:8.11 This entire age was characterized by frequent and violent storms. The early crust of the earthwas in a state of continual flux. Surface cooling alternated with immense lava flows. Nowhere can there befound on the surface of the world anything of this original planetary crust. It has all been mixed up toomany times with extruding lavas of deep origins and admixed with subsequent deposits of the early worldwideocean.(661.6) 57:8.12 Nowhere on the surface of the world will there be found more of the modified remnants of theseancient preocean rocks than in northeastern Canada around Hudson Bay. This extensive granite elevation iscomposed of stone belonging to the preoceanic ages. These rock layers have been heated, bent, twisted,upcrumpled, and again and again have they passed through these distorting metamorphic experiences.(661.7) 57:8.13 Throughout the oceanic ages, enormous layers of fossil-free stratified stone were deposited onthis ancient ocean bottom. (Limestone can form as a result of chemical precipitation; not all of the olderlimestone was produced by marine-life deposition.) In none of these ancient rock formations will there befound evidences of life; they contain no fossils unless, by some chance, later deposits of the water ageshave become mixed with these older prelife layers.(662.1) 57:8.14 The earth’s early crust was highly unstable, but mountains were not in process of formation. Theplanet contracted under gravity pressure as it formed. Mountains are not the result of the collapse of thecooling crust of a contracting sphere; they appear later on as a result of the action of rain, gravity, anderosion.(662.2) 57:8.15 The continental land mass of this era increased until it covered almost ten per cent of the earth’ssurface. Severe earthquakes did not begin until the continental mass of land emerged well above the water.When they once began, they increased in frequency and severity for ages. For millions upon millions ofyears earthquakes have diminished, but Urantia still has an average of fifteen daily.(662.3) 57:8.16 850,000,000 years ago the first real epoch of the stabilization of the earth’s crust began. Most ofthe heavier metals had settled down toward the center of the globe; the cooling crust had ceased to cavein on such an extensive scale as in former ages. There was established a better balance between the landextrusion and the heavier ocean bed. The flow of the subcrustal lava bed became well-nigh world-wide, andthis compensated and stabilized the fluctuations due to cooling, contracting, and superficial shifting.(662.4) 57:8.17 Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes continued to diminish in frequency and severity. Theatmosphere was clearing of volcanic gases and water vapor, but the percentage of carbon dioxide was stillhigh.(662.5) 57:8.18 Electric disturbances in the air and in the earth were also decreasing. The lava flows had broughtto the surface a mixture of elements which diversified the crust and better insulated the planet from certainspace-energies. And all of this did much to facilitate the control of terrestrial energy and to regulate itsflow, as is disclosed by the functioning of the magnetic poles.(662.6) 57:8.19 800,000,000 years ago witnessed the inauguration of the first great land epoch, the age ofincreased continental emergence.(662.7) 57:8.20 Since the condensation of the earth’s hydrosphere, first into the world ocean and subsequentlyinto the Pacific Ocean, this latter body of water should be visualized as then covering nine tenths of theearth’s surface. Meteors falling into the sea accumulated on the ocean bottom, and meteors are, generallyspeaking, composed of heavy materials. Those falling on the land were largely oxidized, subsequently worndown by erosion, and washed into the ocean basins. Thus the ocean bottom grew increasingly heavy, andadded to this was the weight of a body of water at some places ten miles deep.(662.8) 57:8.21 The increasing downthrust of the Pacific Ocean operated further to upthrust the continental landmass. Europe and Africa began to rise out of the Pacific depths along with those masses now calledAustralia, North and South America, and the continent of Antarctica, while the bed of the Pacific Oceanengaged in a further compensatory sinking adjustment. By the end of this period almost one third of theearth’s surface consisted of land, all in one continental body.(662.9) 57:8.22 With this increase in land elevation the first climatic differences of the planet appeared. Landelevation, cosmic clouds, and oceanic influences are the chief factors in climatic fluctuation. The backboneof the Asiatic land mass reached a height of almost nine miles at the time of the maximum landemergence. Had there been much moisture in the air hovering over these highly elevated regions,enormous ice blankets would have formed; the ice age would have arrived long before it did. It was severalhundred millions of years before so much land again appeared above water.(663.1) 57:8.23 750,000,000 years ago the first breaks in the continental land mass began as the great northand-south cracking, which later admitted the ocean waters and prepared the way for the westward drift ofthe continents of North and South America, including Greenland. The long east-and-west cleavageseparated Africa from Europe and severed the land masses of Australia, the Pacific Islands, and Antarcticafrom the Asiatic continent.(663.2) 57:8.24 700,000,000 years ago Urantia was approaching the ripening of conditions suitable for thesupport of life. The continental land drift continued; increasingly the ocean penetrated the land as longfingerlike seas providing those shallow waters and sheltered bays which are so suitable as a habitat formarine life.(663.3) 57:8.25 650,000,000 years ago witnessed the further separation of the land masses and, in consequence,a further extension of the continental seas. And these waters were rapidly attaining that degree of saltinesswhich was essential to Urantia life.(663.4) 57:8.26 It was these seas and their successors that laid down the life records of Urantia, as subsequentlydiscovered in well-preserved stone pages, volume upon volume, as era succeeded era and age grew uponage. These inland seas of olden times were truly the cradle of evolution.(663.5) 57:8.27 [Presented by a Life Carrier, a member of the original Urantia Corps and now a residentobserver.]

Over a century ago, doctors invented a procedure to remove cataracts from people’s eyes. Among their first patients were people who had been blind from birth. The surgery enabled them to see for the first time as though they were newborn. But unlike newborns, they had acquired language and so were able to tell the doctors what they were experiencing.

They didn’t see “things” that were “out there”; they saw meaningless moving patches of color. The patches were not just confusing in themselves, they caused confusion with other senses as well. The newly sighted persons’ understandings of the world were disrupted. They had to make sense of it all over again.

The patients had to learn how to interpret those color patches in ways that were compatible with their other sensations. This entailed developing new concepts of “things”—groups of sensations combined into a unitary concept—that could be interrelated in a concept of “space.” For the most part, they had no concept of space.

This entailed developing new concepts of “things”—groups of sensations combined into a unitary concept—that could be interrelated in a concept of “space.” For the most part, they had no concept of space.

This entailed developing new concepts of “things”—groups of sensations combined into a unitary concept—that could be interrelated in a concept of “space.” For the most part, they had no concept of space.

Not for me yet...instant...but a hell of alot faster than it used to be for sure! And more clear...easier to identify the relevance of it...which is why when you mentioned the synchronicity...I find that taking the second step...action...on the first...recognition of/in the event...it leads to more in a faster and clearer sequence.

You understand that I'm sure. It's just nice to be focused with more clarity.

Not for me yet...instant...but a hell of alot faster than it used to be for sure! And more clear...easier to identify the relevance of it...which is why when you mentioned the synchronicity...I find that taking the second step...action...on the first...recognition of/in the event...it leads to more in a faster and clearer sequence.

You understand that I'm sure. It's just nice to be focused with more clarity.

Not for me yet...instant...but a hell of alot faster than it used to be for sure! And more clear...easier to identify the relevance of it...which is why when you mentioned the synchronicity...I find that taking the second step...action...on the first...recognition of/in the event...it leads to more in a faster and clearer sequence.

You understand that I'm sure. It's just nice to be focused with more clarity.

Quoting: Aruna

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